Sherlock - Netflix

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson's adventures in 21st Century London.
A thrilling, funny, fast-paced contemporary reimagining of the Arthur
Conan Doyle classic.

Type: Scripted

Languages: English

Status: To Be Determined

Runtime: 90 minutes

Premier: 2010-07-25

Sherlock - Sherlock Holmes (2009 film) - Netflix

Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 mystery period action film based on the
character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film
was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram,
Susan Downey, and Dan Lin. The screenplay, by Michael Robert Johnson,
Anthony Peckham, and Simon Kinberg, was developed from a story by Wigram
and Johnson. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law portray Sherlock Holmes and
Dr. John Watson respectively. Set in 1890, eccentric detective Holmes
and his companion Watson are hired by a secret society to foil a
mysticist's plot to expand the British Empire by seemingly supernatural
means. Rachel McAdams stars as their former adversary Irene Adler and
Mark Strong portrays villain Lord Henry Blackwood. The film was widely
released in North America on December 25, 2009, and on December 26, 2009
in the UK, Ireland, the Pacific and the Atlantic. Sherlock Holmes
received mostly positive critical reaction, with praise for its story,
action sequences, set pieces, costume design, Hans Zimmer’s musical
score, and Downey's performance as the main character, winning Downey
the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. The film
was also nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Original Score and Best
Art Direction. A sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, was
released on December 16, 2011, with a third film scheduled for release
in December 2020.

Sherlock - Filming - Netflix

Filming began in October 2008. The crew shot at Freemasons' Hall and St
Paul's Cathedral. Filming was conducted in Manchester's Northern
Quarter. Manchester Town Hall was extensively used for numerous scenes
with some minor CGI modifications. The interior courtyard was used for a
fight scene, the Great Hall doubled as the House of Lords and numerous
areas such as the landing were used as a backdrop. They shot the opening
scene for three days at St Bartholomew-the-Great church in London, and
shot on the river Thames at Wapping for a scene involving a steamboat on
7 November. Filming continued at Stanley Dock and Clarence Dock in
Liverpool and The Historic Dockyard, Chatham. Street scenes were filmed
in cobbled alleyways in Chatham and Manchester. Brompton Cemetery in
London was used for a key scene, and the palatial 19th-century interior
of the Reform Club stood in for the Café Royal. Scenes from the interior
of 221B Baker Street were shot on a sound stage at Leavesden Studios. In
late November 2008, actor Robert Maillet, who played Dredger, was
filming a fight scene at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, and accidentally
punched Robert Downey Jr. in the face, causing Downey to be bloodied and
knocked down, but not knocked unconscious as originally reported. The
Sun reported that on 28 November, a tank truck caught fire, forcing
filming to stop for two hours. When filming at St John's Street in
December, the schedule had to be shortened from 13 to nine days because
locals complained about how they would always have to park cars
elsewhere during the shoot. In January 2009, filming moved to Brooklyn.

Ritchie wanted his Holmes' costume to play against the popular image of the character, joking “there is only one person in history who ever wore a deerstalker”. Downey selected the character's hat, a beat-up fedora. The director kept to the tradition of making Holmes and Watson's apartment quite messy, and had it decorated with artifacts and scientific objects from the continents they would have visited.